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Price · USD$2,335.39
Market cap$285.29B
Volume · 24h$9.18B
Change · 24h-1.17%

ETH / USD

Price history

Updated 25 Oct, 11:48 UTC

18 Oct 2026 – 25 Oct 2026

Data: CoinMarketCap · Charts: TradingView
Token supply
Circulating
122,161,275 ETH
Newsroom · last 7 days4Published in this category
Newsroom archive45All dates · unprotected stories
Tracked releases · 180 days53Selected public repositories only
Latest newsroom story22 Oct 2026Publication date · UTC

THE BRIEFING

Ethereum, at a glance.

Observed block26,269,475Observed · 25 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC
Pending transactions34Observed · 25 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC
High gas estimate3.35 GweiObserved · 25 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC

THE DEFI FOOTPRINT

Capital tracked on Ethereum

$48.68BTotal value locked · USD
$54.13BDaily observations · USD
25 SepRange low: $49.02B24 Oct

TVL is separate from token price and market capitalization. Observed · 25 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC.

THE CHRONOLOGY

What happened. What came next.

267 matching entries · Page 12 of 14

Newsroom13:51 UTC · Published

Mougayar Defends Ethereum Foundation Amid Treasury Scrutiny

Blockchain researcher William Mougayar publicly defended the Ethereum Foundation, arguing that the organization was “doing exactly its job” as community scrutiny intensified around recent treasury activity and senior departures. His argument reframed the debate as a governance misunderstanding, not simply a dispute…

Jonathan DoyleRead the story
Newsroom20:32 UTC · Published

Harvard Endowment Cuts Crypto ETF Exposure After Short ETHA Exit

Harvard Management Company fully sold its $86.8 million position in BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust and reduced its iShares Bitcoin Trust holdings by 43% in Q1 2026. The move marks the third consecutive quarter of reduced public crypto exposure for the university’s endowment.…

Cole PattersonRead the story
Newsroom16:59 UTC · Published

Syndicate Labs Shuts Down as Rollup Market Consolidates

Syndicate Labs, an a16z-backed builder of reusable Ethereum rollup infrastructure, announced that it has ceased operations after five years. The shutdown crystallizes a broader contraction in the rollup infrastructure market, where developer demand has shifted away from generalized tooling and toward bespoke…

Evelyn WinslowRead the story
Newsroom13:33 UTC · Published

Japan Brokerages Prepare Bitcoin and Ethereum Trusts for Retail Investors

Eleven major Japanese brokerages are preparing to offer crypto investment trusts once the regulatory framework is finalized, with SBI Securities and Rakuten Securities already developing in-house products for Bitcoin and Ethereum exposure. The shift would let retail investors access crypto through ordinary…

Evelyn WinslowRead the story
Newsroom22:13 UTC · Published

Ethereum Stays Below $2,400 as Network Demand Weakens

Ethereum remained capped below $2,400 after repeated failed breakout attempts, with weaker network activity, cautious institutional demand and unfavorable macro signals combining to limit upside. The resistance has become more than a technical level; it now reflects a broader market concern that…

Jonathan DoyleRead the story

All published, unprotected stories in this project’s category are available through these pages. Official publications cover the last 180 days of our tracked sources. Publication entries use publication dates. Market entries use the source observation time, with one record per UTC day.

BENEATH THE HEADLINES

The observations, in context.

Observed block26,269,475Observed · 25 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC
Pending transactions34Observed · 25 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC
High gas estimate3.35 GweiObserved · 25 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC

Node observations have limited scope: queued or pending transactions are not network-wide totals. A block’s transactions are not daily activity. Fee estimates and resource prices are distinct from the total cost of a transaction. Protocol fees and revenue describe the named protocol version, not the token’s price or an investor’s return; versions are not summed.

DeFi total value locked

$48.68B
$54.13BDaily observations · USD
25 SepRange low: $49.02B24 Oct

Observed · 24 Oct 2026, 14:30 UTC. Price and protocol coverage can affect USD totals.

BUILD & SHIP

Published project updates.

Software publications from the repositories we track. Release counts do not measure developer numbers, commit activity or project quality. Publication dates are not activation dates.

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READ THE CONTEXT

About this dossier.

Ethereum · ETH

This dossier follows the project through our published coverage and the observations available for its verified identity. It updates as new information enters our collections.

Assets, networks and protocols are different entities. We do not assign a host network’s activity to every token issued on it.

Last observed in the daily selection: 25 Oct 2026 00:07 UTC. Leaving the top 50 does not remove this dossier or its news archive.

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Identity references supplied by CoinMarketCap · checked 24 Oct 2026. Repository publications cover only our selected sources.

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